stagnant

Yet currently, the average age of diagnosis remains stagnant at over four years old.

“On one hand, they genuinely want to help. They see their kids navigating higher housing costs, student loans and stagnant wages, and they remember how hard it was even when things were 'easier.'”

For public school students, that means less equipment, fewer books and even larger class sizes as more districts are forced to make cuts to educator and support staffing and keep teacher pay stagnant.

Some say, for a start, it could further depress an already stagnant economy, as well as further depress the outlook of many on politicians' capacities to keep promises.

The organisation, said the source, had become a bureaucracy that was "intellectually stagnant" and that its position interacting with both the health service and ministers "wasn't right".